Blaziken 24/189 · Darkness Ablaze

Blaziken is Pokédex #257, generation 3 (Hoenn). Blaziken is a Stage 2 Fire Pokémon with 170 HP. The card says it evolves from Combusken. In this catalog that name is Combusken (#256).

Blaziken sits at 24/189 in Darkness Ablaze, position 24 of 201. Before it is 23 Combusken, and after it is 25 Heatran. The set belongs to the Sword & Shield series. It was released on 14 August 2020. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 201 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Double Type is listed as Ability. As long as this Pokémon is in play, it is Fire and Fighting type. The attack Turbo Drive lists 130 damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless, Colorless. Attach a basic Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "When facing a tough foe, it looses flames from its wrists. Its powerful legs let it jump clear over buildings." The regulation mark is D.

Blaziken (#257) has 31 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 20 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Blaziken 3/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 170 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Kouki Saitou illustrated that card, and Ryuta Fuse illustrated this one. 28 other cards of Blaziken list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Ryuta Fuse. I count 98 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Darkness Ablaze set binder is where a full Darkness Ablaze set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Blaziken can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Hoenn starters. I still need this card.